Funding for Kalvos & Damian is always needed. Composers, show hosts, and website builders Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and David Gunn have worked more than eight years to make K&D a valuable resource. Some of its activities -- such as building detailed composer pages -- are being taken over by the composers themselves. That's good. And sites like MP3.com make it possible to hear many composers in fine, high-fidelity streams. That's good, too.

But having a large archive of interviews and sound clips is even more important now than when we started in 1995. There is a huge body of "competitive" work on line, mostly pop music, crowding out the visibility of new concert/classical/electroacoustic (etc.) music once again. The mainstream media have not given their attention to the remarkable place of new music on the Internet 'stage', but rather of the Internet as one more distribution channel. Though expected, it is still astounding to us. The interactivity and community nature is being replaced by a sales mentality -- even MP3.com has begun posting royalty earnings and popularity charts.

We welcome change. But it also means that Kalvos & Damian needs to provide its service in a stronger way, and sometimes a more costly way. Because of costs, we have been limited to interviews and guests from the eastern United States and Western Europe. We struggle always with on-line space. The licensing issues undreamed of in 1995 have become a nightmare in 2000.

If K&D has a purpose, and we believe it does (as do both ASCAP and The Argosy Foundation, who awarded K&D honors in the same week in October 2000), then seeing those purposes through becomes increasingly time-consuming and costly. We will continue with our show and site, but would like it to continue to have meaning for composers and their audiences in more than a deejay way. Please help us continue and contact us with your contributions.

Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar is a radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, mentoring, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas. Despite the "Bazaar" in its name, K&D doesn't sell anything, and isn't a commercial venture of any kind. The Bazaar presents the eclectic world of newly composed music in a try-it-you'll-like-it format, connects composers with each other and with audiences, and develops special programs for schools and organizations. The Bazaar is sponsored by organizations in our Vermont home -- WGDR-FM Community Radio, the Consortium of Vermont Composers, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Goddard College, and is produced by Malted/Media Productions.

Find out more by using the navigation column to the left!

What are the K&D projects?

Kalvos & Damian are always stretching for ways to bring all kinds of listeners to today's concert, chamber, electroacoustic, and performance music. Among them...

Composer Mentoring. In cooperation with arts and education organizations and schools, K&D brings composers online to guide schoolchildren in writing music. More than two dozen composers have participated in the K&D/WebProject effort, with composers and software selected by K&D. We continue our mentoring through email exchanges, as well as with the K&D shows inclusion as part of academic curricula.

The K&D Tours. Vermont is isolated, so K&D travels to artistic centers. Interview tours have included Toronto, New York City, Amsterdam, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Los Angeles (August 2003), San Francisco (August 2003) and other locales. When Kalvos or Damian travel individually, they also collect interviews.

Composer Pages. Unique composer pages are part of the K&D project. Not only are music and interview clips included on most pages, but we also present composers' writings, more than 40 of them found only on the K&D website.

Transcriptions. Listening is not always the most efficient way of hearing from composers, nor is it the best documentation for many uses. So K&D have embarked on a transcription project which will present in print form all the interviews conducted on K&D shows. This project began in part with transcriptions of Matthew Fields, Ann Southam, and others, and will continue with Barbara Benary, Barry Drogin, and many others. The goal is a complete archive of transcriptions, and a book that looks at composition from 1995-2005.

The Bazaar is broadcast live every Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30 (1830 to 2030 GMT) on WGDR in Central Vermont on 91.1 FM and via our live cybercast through WGDR. A nearly complete archive is here on KalvoNet. Check out our homepage for regular announcements as archived shows are posted. We can also be heard on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and other radio stations will also be carrying the Bazaar in the next year.

What Support is Sought?

Support requested for Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar includes financing of special projects. Among them:

The Electric Rainbow cybercast (2003).

Other special cybercasts.

The NonPop International Network.

Transcriptions of Interviews.

Composer Mentoring.

Live concerts.

Interview tours.

Resource maintenance.

Equipment upgrades.

New music library.

Ongoing special projects with immediate needs.

Monetary support, new recordings, and in-kind supplies and labor (PC equipment, CDRs, DATs, etc.) are invited. Contributions are made to the Kalvos & Damian Program Fund of the 501(c)3 tax-exempt VCME. Contributions can be forwarded directly to Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA, made out to "VCME/Kalvos & Damian". Contact us for information.

Outcomes: The K&D Goals

Many media projects -- especially those on the web -- are 'hobby' projects or fan sites. Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar is a serious effort to create a live and archived look at composers and music composition at the end of the century. We measure our effectiveness by the volume of email we exchange, the quality of the email, honest site 'numbers', and valuable acknowledgments of our work.

Both the New York Times and the Village Voice have noted K&D's resources; the Times devoted a sidebar to the K&D show on Conlon Nancarrow. We have won numerous site awards including the 2000 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Internet Award. Our site is accessible by W3C standards.

Measurement by Site Size, August 20, 1998; October 20, 2000; July 20, 2003

Audio files (music, interview clips, and archived shows)

627

1004

1728

Control files for audio

559

714

1727

Text files ("pages")

476

726

1152

Graphics files (images with "content")

304

529

849

Graphics files (design graphics, icons, and navigation)

152

284

417

Program files

12

21

21

Scores

5

12

12

Videos

1

1

1

TOTAL (incl. misc. files)

2,136

3,665

6,451

Total Size

2.27GB

4.35GB

8.75GB

Measurement by Website Visitors, April 1, 1997; August 20, 1998; July 20, 2003

Unique Visitors

46,689

210,822

540,212

Measurement by Email, November 25, 1996-August 20, 1998; October 20, 2000; July 20, 2003Detailed mail statistics take much time to derive. We get lots.